Happy Fall!!!

• The 1st Grade Team has loved getting to know your child this quarter!
• Please review the weekly Talking Point message and practice Power Words and counting with your child. Being able to automatically read and spell Power Words will significantly improve your child's ability to read fluently and write with confidence.
• As a reminder, please send your child to school in sneakers if possible. We go outside three times a day (weather permitting) and sneakers are the safest choice for the playground.
• Make sure your child is not bringing toys to school.

Weekly the 1st Grade team will send a Talking Points message with details of what we will be learning. Here are the skills we will be focusing on in the 2nd Quarter:

Reading:

• Blend and segment words
• Read and spell words with the following spelling patterns: blends, r-controlled vowels, CVCe, and welded sounds
• Identify and discuss characters, settings, conflicts, and solutions in stories
• Retell familiar stories using beginning, middle, and end
• Read with fluency and expression
• Write sentences using capitalization, end marks, and spacing

Math:

• Identify and describe shapes using attributes
• Identify a penny, nickel, & dime and use skip counting to count a collection of coins
• Create patterns and begin working with increasing patterns
• Orally count forward to 110 and backwards from 30
• Count and compare objects to 70

• October 12th-NO SCHOOL (teacher work day)
• November 3rd-NO SCHOOL (teacher training day)
• November 24th-Field Trip to the Discovery Museum
• November 25th-27th-NO SCHOOL (fall holiday)
• December 18th-EARLY DISMISSAL

At VACDES we are safe, kind, and responsible.

Please remind your child that:

Little Judges are calm and keep hands to self so everyone stays safe at school.

Little Judges use kind words and treat others like they would want to be treated.

Little Judges follow directions and take responsibility for their learning by participating in lessons and not interrupting.